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Karen Tongson

Book Review: “Normporn” — Yearning for the Impossible Middle

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Posted in Books, Featured, Television

The cultural critic’s wrestling with the compromises that the pleasures of mass culture inevitably demand is heartfelt. In a word, it’s normal.

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